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• There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

  George C. Scott

  Self, Recognition, Enjoy

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• America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, Two, Qualms About

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Weed, Hate, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 15, 2014

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• We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Survival, Fear And Loathing, Gonzo

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.175, Vintage

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• In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Race, Kentucky

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.36, Vintage

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• A few years ago, before I stopped drinking, I was feeling very sorry for myself and very drunk, and I Googled 'Moby Sucks'. In less than one second something like 20 million responses came up... yeah, there has been a lot of loathing directed towards me, and it used to drive me crazy.

  Moby

  Sorry, Crazy, Drinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

  David Sedaris

  Hate, Community, Hatred

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mom, Brother, Teenage

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Differences, Century, Periods

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Self, Answers, Trust Me

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, 1995 - 1997.

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• Creating fear and loathing of gay and lesbian Americans has proven, year after year, to be the most effective say for Dobson and the other fundamentalist Christian leaders to raise millions of dollars and recruit millions of volunteers to support their long-range campaign to take back America.

  Mel White

  Christian, Gay, Years

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• OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lexicographer, Fool, Used

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

  David Walliams

  Self, Elements, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ties, Deceiving

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

  Auberon Waugh

  Two Sides, Insulting, England

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• Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, America, People

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• These days, the selfie and its main outlet, Instagram, generally come in for much adult loathing. But consider this: The selfie is a tiny pulse of girl pride—a shout-out to the self. … The selfie suggests something in picture form—I think I look [beautiful] [happy] [funny] [sexy]. Do you?—that a girl could never get away with saying. It puts the gaze of the camera squarely in a girl’s hands, and along with it, the power to influence the photo’s interpretation.

  Rachel Simmons

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

  Laurie Lee

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Laurie Lee (2011). “Cider With Rosie”, p.36, Random House

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• Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite is true. In some cases, suicide risk skyrockets once treatment begins (the patient may feel not only penalized for a justifiable reaction, but permanently stigmatized as malfunctioning). Studies show that self-loathing sharply decreases only in the course of cognitive-behavioral treatment.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Suicide, Self, Opposites

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.15, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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• Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!

  Pema Chodron

  Inspiration, Practice, Lunch

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

  Johnny Depp

  Self, Bangs, Gone

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